Lobby style chat room

daBilderberg

I think having a chat room integrated into the Main Menu Interface would help facilitate populating empty/low player count servers. A chat room at the bottom of the server selection screen could solve the whole problem of people cramming into servers. I know I'm not the only one in the server screen when I see only one server full and a bunch others empty (it would be nice to see how many other players are in a queue - ahead or behind). It would be nice feature. Thoughts?

Nordic

http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/137714/global-irc-chat#latest

Ironsoul

Yes, I would like to work with someone on implementing this as a mod.

daBilderberg

Nordic wrote: »

http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/137714/global-irc-chat#latest

That's cool and all Nordic, but I think we're all past having to have mIRC installed... I think an integrated chat room would be the wiser thing to do.

GhoulofGSG9

daBilderberg wrote: »

Nordic wrote: »

http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/137714/global-irc-chat#latest

That's cool and all Nordic, but I think we're all past having to have mIRC installed... I think an integrated chat room would be the wiser thing to do.

Wasn't the point of that post to integrate a IRC client into ns2?

Actually that would be pretty easy to execute:
Use a html/JS based irc client, launch it in a awesomium webview (autoconnecting to the irc ns channel a gamesurge.net using the steamname as nickname).
The "real work" is fiddling around with the menu gui elements to make it somewhat descent looking.

SantaClaws

daBilderberg wrote: »

Nordic wrote: »

http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/137714/global-irc-chat#latest

That's cool and all Nordic, but I think we're all past having to have mIRC installed... I think an integrated chat room would be the wiser thing to do.

SantaClaws wrote:

Inb4:
"Nobody uses irc, this isn't 1999."

Except every twitch user in the world - the problem is not the platform, it's the accessibility of it. People generally don't want to download excess software like an irc client just to chat. But if it is Integrated in a client they already use (or in twitch's case, the website), then to them it's all the same as any other chat.

As Ghoul points out, the point of my post was to integrate an irc client in to the ns2 client. Similar to how TableTopSimulator and Unreal Tournament 2004 have.